Re: [OT] phone spam

Tim McGraw <[email protected]> wrote 
> I've read about this, but it's the first time it's happened to me.
> 
> Despite being on the Do Not Call Registry I just received a
pre-recorded 
> message telling me that "the information I had requested on the
Internet 
> about extra income had been received" and it directed me to 
> readfromhome.com. The incoming caller's number was blocked.
> 
> So when I went to file a complaint at 
> https://www.donotcall.gov/Complain/ComplainCheck.aspx instead of
naming 
	[...]
> I predict this will become a more prevalent way of spamming in the 
> not-too-distant future as spam filtering becomes more aggressive and 
> accurate.

Not really. Just as a Spam could say "as you requested on our web site"
so can a attempt to get round the Do Not Call list. If the evidnce is
missing or all the requests are from the same IP the owner of the
outgoing call centre will have to drop his cleint with prejudice or be
cut off. If the client generates a new company name and tries again the
weak point is still the need to convince a call centre and the local
phone company. Now if you could sign up with a VOIP provider with a
throwaway account and run the whole thing from your PC that would be
closer to the spam situation. Note however that the access to the PSTN
to connect the call would still be a choke and observation point that
the existance of zombies means Spam no longer has. 

BTW, I assume all the above was within the US ? 
The FCC apparently has no interest in automated Spam calls from Florida
to Europe so you would have problems in such a case (Florida State
government kindly took an interest) or if the call was to the US from
anywhere outside. The EU requires every member to have a DNCL but
hasn't considered what to do about transnational calls and thus there
is no one to regulate calls anywhere to the UK or for that matter to
Estonia.

-- 
Mike D